CaseFireball2002
Sarasota, FL, USA
Bright fireball travelling S - N leaving a trail
Report quality: Moderate44/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 4s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (48 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-12-21
- Where
- Sarasota, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 - 5 seconds
- Geo
- 27.336, -82.531 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-sarasota-fl-2002-20e644
In context
- Sarasota, FL shows up 130 times across the archive.
- 154 reports came from Florida in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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